HF 3873 Summary

• Adds "swab team services" to the definition of lead hazard reduction activities that make residences, child care facilities, schools, and playgrounds lead-safe.

• Expands the definition of "regulated lead work" to include lead hazard reduction as a standalone category and changes lead orders from "community health board" to "assessing agency."

• Increases the interior painted surface threshold for renovation activities from 6 square feet to 6 square feet, and clarifies that activities disturbing less than 20 square feet on exterior surfaces and less than 6 square feet in interior rooms are excluded from renovation requirements.

• Modifies licensing and certification language throughout section 144.9505 to replace "regulated lead work" with "lead hazard reduction" in several contexts, including for certified lead firms and renovation firms performing work outside their own properties.

• Changes the certified renovation firm requirement so that persons who "perform" renovation activities outside their property must obtain certification, rather than only those who "employ individuals" to perform such activities.